Pepper Seedlings has Started Bending and Falling

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2010ee179
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Pepper Seedlings has Started Bending and Falling

Post by 2010ee179 »

Aoa,

I'm a complete newbie. I started sowing pepper seeds two weeks ago (3rd august,2014), reading many articles on internet and taking well care of seedlings. Peppers have grown 2 pairs of leaves (and seems to have stopped growing more) and today (17th august,2014) i thought to move them in sunlight thinking that they need light that's why they are not growing more leaves. I didn't put them under direct sunlight, infact used a glass to pass sunlight through it (you can say a miniature green house) and temperature I measured was 45C. I kept them for 3 hours and many of my pepper seedlings started bending and falling :(
I've attached a picture...please tell me what to do now? I mean its been two weeks, whats the next step now? should i move them outside or keep them inside? what about sunlight? do they need it now or i should wait until they grow more leaves and then put them outside.

(I know its a long paragraph...thanks for reading :)
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M Farooq
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Re: Pepper Seedlings has Started Bending and Falling

Post by M Farooq »

Sorry to see that- as you said 45 oC is too hot for delicate seedlings that too in a plastic container. If the roots are damaged at this stage, there is no cure.
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Re: Pepper Seedlings has Started Bending and Falling

Post by Muhammad Arif Khan »

Your plastic pots do they have drainage holes.
Try,try and try again at last you will succeed. Failures are half the fun of gardening.
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